Quite soon the chineese government won't have to try to censor the net. The western world will just filter off all the traffic coming from China, doing the job much more efficiently.
...except of its tablet form. A laptop to be usable has to have the lid opened and then practically doubles in size, or more. This thing doesn't need to be opened, it has the neat "closed laptop" dimensions all the time.
In my opiniation, "burglarize" is a perfectionally validative wordification. How else would reportization of the securitial/policial forceship appearize to be importantive enoughly to be respectative by the massmediaship and influentate the societyness?
No, but the calculators are useless for these anyway - you must show correct calculations, not just results. Actually you can pass with quite a high degree without providing a single digit of result, just equations that solve the tasks - and there's not many calculators that can do symbolical calculations on this level anyway.
A tap broke in the flat of a professor of maths. He called a plumber. The plumber arrived, in 15 replaced a pipe and charged the professor 1/4 his monthly salary. "My god! So much? But it didn't look difficult at all! You must earn quite a bit more than I do!" "Sure, just become a plumber and you'll earn as much as me. No, seriously, there is demand, and the job isn't really hard..." So the professor became a plumber. He started repairing leaking taps etc, earning a lot of money for very little work. And it lasted until one day when the union decided all the plumbers need to know at least basics of maths, so there will be a training... So, the training starts, the maths is extremely simple, just like for kids. And then the teacher calls our professor to the blackboard and asks him to write the formula for the field of circle. And professor, in terror realizes, he forgot. "Okay, no panic. I'm a math professor, I don't remember the formula but I can derive it." So he starts calculating the formula, splitting the circle into infinitely many pieces, filling whole blackboard with calculations, integrals, derivatives... finally comes up with minus pi r squared. "No, that's wrong. Field can't be negative. There must be a mistake somewhere." So he checks his calculations once, twice, can't find the error. And whisper arises in the classroom filled with a crowd of plumbers. Finally he starts recognising the words in the whisper, and everyone in the room whispers "Exchange limits of the integral! Exchange limits of the integral!"
Numerical Method exam. One of major universities in Poland.
15 tasks. All the same type - Given input data [some numbers] find the solution / perform n iterations, using [method].
What counts is the result, not how you calculated it. Using pen&paper plus a standard calculator you neeed 20-45 minutes (mostly 30) to solve one task. Just writing down the answers takes about 5-10 minutes.
Now the tricky part: You need 60% correct answers to pass, the exam time is 2 hours.
Nobody tells you this, but the -only- method of passing this exam is to have a programmable calculator, have programs for all these methods written on it, and during the exam just to enter the data and write down the answers - the exam proper takes place outside the exam room, at home or in student's hostel, when you write the programs, test them, debug them etc. What happens during the official exam is just testing if you your programs right.
And simply put, if you don't own a programmable calculator, you're screwed.
Let me put it simply: Airbrush sucks. I need something better. The task is preparing gray-to-heightmap images from photos for later 3D engraving using a CNC engraving machine. I "spray" more white using airbrush where the image in the background is higher, leave dark where the bottom should stay deep. The effect is very neat for small details or simple shapes. But it really sucks when it comes to large areas. The fact that the output is slightly grainy is not that bad - a single pass of blur and the "grains" are gone. Much harder is achieving bigger smoothly curved surfaces - just try to spray a regular flat gray area (using white), it's just as hard as to get a smooth gradient - you get low-depth, several pixels wide depressions, bumps etc that are very hard to remove. Regular "gradient" is not an option either - I need shapes much more sophisticated than regular "spherical" or "shapeburst" - maybe something like Bezier curved gradients could help...?
Any ideas, suggestions?
(no, don't suggest Photoshop. It does exactly the same.)
Hey?! Where do I get the Source version of V:M?:) That's been one nice game I've played some time ago... (unless we're talking different V:M, not "Redemption")
First off, x86 Solaris crawls on any hardware that isn't top-notch. I didn't try it on any top-notch hardware yet but I guess the OS overhead is enough to keep your apps slow - not enough CPU time left to run userspace programs. If SUN doesn't do something about Solaris x86 performance/requirements, it can't even try to compete with Linux. SPARC - yes, Solaris rules. Not PC.
I have played HL 1, but still I don't understand.
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Okay, someone maybe coming up with explaination of some HL1 puzzles? Some questions that are or aren't answered in (2)?
What good or bad does my killing of the big nastie in the end of pt. 1 accomplish? Who are the poor losers in hazard suits scattered all over XEN? Is The Administrator a.k.a. G-man a human or an alien, a traitor or a spy? What did he have in common with Black Mesa research program? What does he carry in his briefcase besides the gun (checkable by noclip)? What are the samples examined by Gordon in pt.1 and was resonance cascade phenomenon effect of an accident or a sabotage? Did G-man have anything in common with it? Who decided Black Mesa (apparently a private company) does so dirty job civillians should be wiped out? Why did Lambda team need an extra satellite in orbit? And what did Gordon actually do after accepting the administrator's offer?
if they'd just would have worked on the story, character design and AI a bit more the game would have been perfect.
Then you'd get Morrowind. And you'd start cursing why they didn't work on engine and debug more:)
Morrowind lacks a bit in the means of foliage and view distance is limited too (though with 3rd party "hack" possible to be quite far) but it has all the freedom you'd want (including jumping through the roofs of village huts to sneak into a house through a balcony door, or performing an "icarian flight" jump which takes you about two miles away, just like normal jump takes you two steps away). Unfortunately it sometimes crashes and some quests, scripts etc are broken, plus there are some simplifications to the engine (attackers, instead of hiding, will run senselessly around you if you sit on a tree and shoot them with your bow etc)
Okay, I haven't played yet and probably won't in a month or longer, but I watch and follow the news. Now everyone's full of praises but there must be some downsides? Are there? I heard "vague ending" and "too easy gameplay" are two basic ones, but what besides that?
Re:Why you stick a hard drive in the freezer....
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Oh, so that's what happens to my old 200M drive?!:) I fix the problem by shaking it vigoriously until it spins up.
I've attached my Amiga harddrive to a PC at work. For a few days I've been succesfully using my home system by mounting the drive under linux as AFFS and then using the mounted directories as volumes under UAE, emulating Amiga just like the one I had at home. Then I got that idea of looking how does Windows see it. I booted NT, Disk Manager and it displayed a requester with something along this lines: "The drive contains invalid/corrupt signature and can't be read. Windows is about to write a correct signature. This is an absolutely safe operation and won't change the way of accessing the disk by other operating systems in any way. Do you wish to proceed?". So, I clicked yes. Result: 6 hours of recovering of erased Amiga partition table. Absolutely safe my ass, fucking Microsoft liars.
Actually, I do:) Maybe not '95 but it's some 600MHZ PIII from times when this stuff was HOT. The programs sometimes require "task manager" to kill them, but it has never crashed on me yet. And it controls the production:) And probably has better uptimes than my Linux box but just because I shut down my linux box for the night:)
Okay, your house is on fire and you start throwing out books from your library, neglecting several gallons of gasoline in garage... I'm not saying overpopulation is not a problem. But we don't really know what impact does it have...
Did you notice the 1.7% of all greenhouse gas output is from active but not ERUPTING volcanos? It's quite long since the last serious eruption. If Mt. Helen goes boom, the proportions may change seriously. But in the other hand, even if humans are responsible for 5% of glasshouse gas productionm, outballancing certain parameter of environment by 5% may cause dire consequences... and sometimes removing the (or other) 5% will bring situation back to normal...
If the primary cause of deforestation is population growth in third world nations, shouldn't we rather take care of helping them to "advance" to more pro-ecological anti-deforestation "1st world" instead of limiting their population by sending the marines or dropping da bomb? Human "breath air" CO2 is negligible, and most of other "artificial sources" can be replaced by environment-friendly (but more expensive) alternatives. And to that, we could even afford quite seriously increased CO2 emissions if we provide removal. Not only "stop deforestation" but opposite, grow forests on otherwise unused terrains. In this matter I feel I have clean hands - the number and size of trees in my backyard cleans up about as much CO2 as me and my family produces. Want to buy a new car? Plant two trees. Want to build a factory? Cover several acres woth forest... Simple.
In my case, the reaction is: Stand up from armchair and look around to check what's burning. We know something's on fire and we see several places that emit smoke. It's not wise to start extinguishing the one at our feet because it's the nearest...
Now number one problem, so we two who have some very good ideas, moved our butts from our chairs and did something... 'cause Bush is too stupid and Kerry too blinded by "other problems of the US" to take care of it.
...about promoting DRM in WMV format? Come on, there's so many open-source or open-source-friendly formats and you must pick the one Microsoft has introduced especially so they could support DRM?
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Quite soon the chineese government won't have to try to censor the net. The western world will just filter off all the traffic coming from China, doing the job much more efficiently.
...except of its tablet form.
A laptop to be usable has to have the lid opened and then practically doubles in size, or more. This thing doesn't need to be opened, it has the neat "closed laptop" dimensions all the time.
In my opiniation, "burglarize" is a perfectionally validative wordification. How else would reportization of the securitial/policial forceship appearize to be importantive enoughly to be respectative by the massmediaship and influentate the societyness?
No, but the calculators are useless for these anyway - you must show correct calculations, not just results. Actually you can pass with quite a high degree without providing a single digit of result, just equations that solve the tasks - and there's not many calculators that can do symbolical calculations on this level anyway.
A tap broke in the flat of a professor of maths. He called a plumber. The plumber arrived, in 15 replaced a pipe and charged the professor 1/4 his monthly salary.
"My god! So much? But it didn't look difficult at all! You must earn quite a bit more than I do!"
"Sure, just become a plumber and you'll earn as much as me. No, seriously, there is demand, and the job isn't really hard..."
So the professor became a plumber. He started repairing leaking taps etc, earning a lot of money for very little work. And it lasted until one day when the union decided all the plumbers need to know at least basics of maths, so there will be a training...
So, the training starts, the maths is extremely simple, just like for kids. And then the teacher calls our professor to the blackboard and asks him to write the formula for the field of circle.
And professor, in terror realizes, he forgot.
"Okay, no panic. I'm a math professor, I don't remember the formula but I can derive it."
So he starts calculating the formula, splitting the circle into infinitely many pieces, filling whole blackboard with calculations, integrals, derivatives... finally comes up with minus pi r squared.
"No, that's wrong. Field can't be negative. There must be a mistake somewhere." So he checks his calculations once, twice, can't find the error. And whisper arises in the classroom filled with a crowd of plumbers. Finally he starts recognising the words in the whisper, and everyone in the room whispers "Exchange limits of the integral! Exchange limits of the integral!"
Heh... You think so?
Numerical Method exam. One of major universities in Poland.
15 tasks. All the same type - Given input data [some numbers] find the solution / perform n iterations, using [method].
What counts is the result, not how you calculated it. Using pen&paper plus a standard calculator you neeed 20-45 minutes (mostly 30) to solve one task. Just writing down the answers takes about 5-10 minutes.
Now the tricky part: You need 60% correct answers to pass, the exam time is 2 hours.
Nobody tells you this, but the -only- method of passing this exam is to have a programmable calculator, have programs for all these methods written on it, and during the exam just to enter the data and write down the answers - the exam proper takes place outside the exam room, at home or in student's hostel, when you write the programs, test them, debug them etc. What happens during the official exam is just testing if you your programs right.
And simply put, if you don't own a programmable calculator, you're screwed.
King Steve Singlehandedly Solved Starvation
Seek other King Steve references as well...
Let me put it simply: Airbrush sucks. I need something better.
The task is preparing gray-to-heightmap images from photos for later 3D engraving using a CNC engraving machine. I "spray" more white using airbrush where the image in the background is higher, leave dark where the bottom should stay deep. The effect is very neat for small details or simple shapes. But it really sucks when it comes to large areas. The fact that the output is slightly grainy is not that bad - a single pass of blur and the "grains" are gone. Much harder is achieving bigger smoothly curved surfaces - just try to spray a regular flat gray area (using white), it's just as hard as to get a smooth gradient - you get low-depth, several pixels wide depressions, bumps etc that are very hard to remove.
Regular "gradient" is not an option either - I need shapes much more sophisticated than regular "spherical" or "shapeburst" - maybe something like Bezier curved gradients could help...?
Any ideas, suggestions?
(no, don't suggest Photoshop. It does exactly the same.)
Watch out. He'll turn it inside out and thus destroy our world by smashing it with an emerging White Hole.
Hey?! Where do I get the Source version of V:M? :)
That's been one nice game I've played some time ago... (unless we're talking different V:M, not "Redemption")
First off, x86 Solaris crawls on any hardware that isn't top-notch. I didn't try it on any top-notch hardware yet but I guess the OS overhead is enough to keep your apps slow - not enough CPU time left to run userspace programs. If SUN doesn't do something about Solaris x86 performance/requirements, it can't even try to compete with Linux. SPARC - yes, Solaris rules. Not PC.
Okay, someone maybe coming up with explaination of some HL1 puzzles? Some questions that are or aren't answered in (2)?
What good or bad does my killing of the big nastie in the end of pt. 1 accomplish?
Who are the poor losers in hazard suits scattered all over XEN?
Is The Administrator a.k.a. G-man a human or an alien, a traitor or a spy? What did he have in common with Black Mesa research program? What does he carry in his briefcase besides the gun (checkable by noclip)?
What are the samples examined by Gordon in pt.1 and was resonance cascade phenomenon effect of an accident or a sabotage? Did G-man have anything in common with it? Who decided Black Mesa (apparently a private company) does so dirty job civillians should be wiped out? Why did Lambda team need an extra satellite in orbit? And what did Gordon actually do after accepting the administrator's offer?
Valve obviously knows how to do a semi-seamless transition, just perhaps that hasn't been optimized yet.
Do you remember that +Funny moderation doesn't earn you any Karma?
if they'd just would have worked on the story, character design and AI a bit more the game would have been perfect.
:)
Then you'd get Morrowind.
And you'd start cursing why they didn't work on engine and debug more
Morrowind lacks a bit in the means of foliage and view distance is limited too (though with 3rd party "hack" possible to be quite far) but it has all the freedom you'd want (including jumping through the roofs of village huts to sneak into a house through a balcony door, or performing an "icarian flight" jump which takes you about two miles away, just like normal jump takes you two steps away).
Unfortunately it sometimes crashes and some quests, scripts etc are broken, plus there are some simplifications to the engine (attackers, instead of hiding, will run senselessly around you if you sit on a tree and shoot them with your bow etc)
Okay, I haven't played yet and probably won't in a month or longer, but I watch and follow the news. Now everyone's full of praises but there must be some downsides? Are there?
I heard "vague ending" and "too easy gameplay" are two basic ones, but what besides that?
Oh, so that's what happens to my old 200M drive?! :)
I fix the problem by shaking it vigoriously until it spins up.
I've attached my Amiga harddrive to a PC at work. For a few days I've been succesfully using my home system by mounting the drive under linux as AFFS and then using the mounted directories as volumes under UAE, emulating Amiga just like the one I had at home. Then I got that idea of looking how does Windows see it.
I booted NT, Disk Manager and it displayed a requester with something along this lines:
"The drive contains invalid/corrupt signature and can't be read. Windows is about to write a correct signature. This is an absolutely safe operation and won't change the way of accessing the disk by other operating systems in any way. Do you wish to proceed?".
So, I clicked yes.
Result: 6 hours of recovering of erased Amiga partition table. Absolutely safe my ass, fucking Microsoft liars.
4000 DETECTED wrong votes.
And you say "well, he still won by more votes than those which got messed up."
Actually, he won by more votes that were found to be messed up. How many passed unnoticed will remain a mystery forever.
Actually, I do :) :) And probably has better uptimes than my Linux box but just because I shut down my linux box for the night :)
Maybe not '95 but it's some 600MHZ PIII from times when this stuff was HOT.
The programs sometimes require "task manager" to kill them, but it has never crashed on me yet. And it controls the production
You didn't get it.
"Hey, man, sue whoever caused it, because it's going to kill us in a minute"
"And maybe better we try to stop it first?"
Okay, your house is on fire and you start throwing out books from your library, neglecting several gallons of gasoline in garage... I'm not saying overpopulation is not a problem. But we don't really know what impact does it have...
Did you notice the 1.7% of all greenhouse gas output is from active but not ERUPTING volcanos? It's quite long since the last serious eruption. If Mt. Helen goes boom, the proportions may change seriously.
But in the other hand, even if humans are responsible for 5% of glasshouse gas productionm, outballancing certain parameter of environment by 5% may cause dire consequences... and sometimes removing the (or other) 5% will bring situation back to normal...
If the primary cause of deforestation is population growth in third world nations, shouldn't we rather take care of helping them to "advance" to more pro-ecological anti-deforestation "1st world" instead of limiting their population by sending the marines or dropping da bomb? Human "breath air" CO2 is negligible, and most of other "artificial sources" can be replaced by environment-friendly (but more expensive) alternatives. And to that, we could even afford quite seriously increased CO2 emissions if we provide removal. Not only "stop deforestation" but opposite, grow forests on otherwise unused terrains. In this matter I feel I have clean hands - the number and size of trees in my backyard cleans up about as much CO2 as me and my family produces. Want to buy a new car? Plant two trees. Want to build a factory? Cover several acres woth forest... Simple.
In my case, the reaction is: Stand up from armchair and look around to check what's burning. We know something's on fire and we see several places that emit smoke. It's not wise to start extinguishing the one at our feet because it's the nearest...
Now number one problem, so we two who have some very good ideas, moved our butts from our chairs and did something... 'cause Bush is too stupid and Kerry too blinded by "other problems of the US" to take care of it.
...about promoting DRM in WMV format? Come on, there's so many open-source or open-source-friendly formats and you must pick the one Microsoft has introduced especially so they could support DRM?
But if it's such a powerful spotlight, won't all the cheese melt?
Downloaded at 40k/sex.
They call it "Freudian typo".